The Washington Post - Importing Ingenuity

International - June, 2005 - In a Washington Post article printed on Sunday, June of 2005. The Washington Post features an article titled "Importing Ingenuity."

The 1974 revolution that overthrew Emperor Haile Selassi stranded this young Ethiopian in California, where he was studying industrial design and engineering.

He proved that he understood two American passions when he invented the Bowflex exercise machine and made a wild success of it by hawking it on TV.